List of First Ladies in Order with Pictures
- This list contains 58 First Ladies ( 57 individuals) including 48 official(47 wives and one niece to president) and 10 acting.
- Offical First Lady Fances Cleveland had served 2 nonconsecutive terms 23rd & 25th.
- There are 4 wives who died before their husbands' inauguration are also considered First Ladies by the White House and the National First Ladies' Library.
- New York has produced the most First Ladies(13 of them).
- June is the month in which most First Ladies were born. December is the least.
- To view 46 presidents and 48 official First Ladies side by side, please click facePresident|First Lady.
First Ladies in Chronological Order
(46th Pres. Joe Biden)
Firsts: First Italian American first lady. The oldest first lady to assume the role.
(45th Pres. Donald Trump)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to be a former lingerie model, speak 5 lanuages. 1st first lady whose native language isn't English.
(44th Pres. Barack Obama)
Firsts: 1st African American First Lady
(43rd Pres. George W. Bush)
Firsts: 1st presidential spouse to deliver the White House weekly address.
(42nd Pres. Bill Clinton)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to host a webcast from the White House. 1st First Lady elected to a public office. 1st First Lady to be a 'de facto' federal official. 1st First Lady to have an office in West
(41st Pres. George H. W. Bush)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to write a memoir from her dog?s perspective.
(40th Pres. Ronald Reagan)
(39th Pres. Jimmy Carter)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to make a foreign policy trip
(38th Pres. Gerald Ford)
(37th Pres. Richard Nixon)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to wear pants in public.
(36th Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson)
Firsts: 1st wife to hold the Bible at the Inauguration.
(35th Pres. John F. Kennedy)
(34th Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to appear in a televised presidential campaign ad
(33rd Pres. Harry S. Truman)
(32nd Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to host a weekly radio show. 1st First Lady to hold a press conference in the White House to women reporters only.
(31st Pres. Herbert Hoover)
(30th Pres. Calvin Coolidge)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to receive an honorary degree from Boston University.
(29th Pres. Warren G. Harding)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to vote
(28th Pres. Woodrow Wilson)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to receive permanent Secret Service protection
(28th Pres. Woodrow Wilson)
* Daughter *
Firsts: acting 1st lady; daughter of the President
(28th Pres. Woodrow Wilson)
Firsts: died during her husband?s presidency. Their daughter, Margaret Woodrow Wilson, served as hostess until her father married Edith.
(27th Pres. William Howard Taft)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to ride with the President during the Inauguration parade. 1st First Lady to write a commercially published book: ?Recollections of Full Years.? 1st First Lady to own and drive
(26th Pres. Theodore Roosevelt)
(25th Pres. William McKinley)
(22nd & 24th Pres. Grover Cleveland)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to be married in the White House. 1st First Lady to have a baby in the White House. 1st President's widow to remarry.
(23rd Pres. Benjamin Harrison)
* Daughter *
(23rd Pres. Benjamin Harrison)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to have a Christmas tree in the White House. 1st First Lady to deliver a speech she had written herself.
(22nd & 24th Pres. Grover Cleveland)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to be married in the White House. 1st First Lady to have a baby in the White House. 1st President's widow to remarry.
(22nd Pres. Grover Cleveland)
* Sister *
(21st Pres. Chester A. Arthur)
* Sister *
(21st Pres. Chester A. Arthur)
* Died 1 year 8 months 8 days before her husband's inauguration
(20th Pres. James A. Garfield)
(19th Pres. Rutherford B. Hayes)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to graduate from college. 1st First Lady to the host a White House Easter Egg Roll.
(18th Pres. Ulysses S. Grant)
(17th Pres. Andrew Johnson)
(16th Pres. Abraham Lincoln)
(15th Pres. James Buchanan)
* Niece *
(14th Pres. Franklin Pierce)
(13th Pres. Millard Fillmore)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to have a job as a school teacher. Established the 1st library in the White House.
(12th Pres. Zachary Taylor)
(11th Pres. James K. Polk)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to host a Thanksgiving dinner at the White House.
(10th Pres. John Tyler)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to be photographed. 1st woman to marry a sitting President.
(10th Pres. John Tyler)
* Daughter-In-Law *
(10th Pres. John Tyler)
(9th Pres. William Henry Harrison)
* Daughter-In-Law *
Firsts: briefly acted as 1st lady since the offical 1st lady was ill; daughter-in-law of the President
(9th Pres. William Henry Harrison)
Firsts: 1st woman to be both wife of a president and grandmother of a president (Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President). She was 1st Lady during her husband's 1-month term, holding the title for the shortest length of time. She was the first First Lady to be widowed while holding the title.
(8th Pres. Martin Van Buren)
* Daughter-In-Law *
(8th Pres. Martin Van Buren)
* Died 18 years 28 days before her husband's inauguration
(7th Pres. Andrew Jackson)
* Daughter-In-Law *
(7th Pres. Andrew Jackson)
* Niece *
Firsts: acting 1st lady; niece of the President
(7th Pres. Andrew Jackson)
* Died 2 months 11 days before her husband's inauguration
(6th Pres. John Quincy Adams)
(5th Pres. James Monroe)
(4th Pres. James Madison)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to be featured on a silver dollar. During her eulogy, President Zachary Taylor was the first to refer to her as ?First Lady?.
(3rd Pres. Thomas Jefferson)
* Daughter *
(3rd Pres. Thomas Jefferson)
* Died 18 years 5 months 27 days before her husband's inauguration
(2nd Pres. John Adams)
Firsts: 1st First Lady to live in the White House. 1st woman to be both wife of a president and mother of a president (John Quincy Adams 6th President)
(1st Pres. George Washington)
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